Looking For A Laptop To Take Traveling!

[Bigman]

Hey Peoples

Soon i will be heading to New Zealand to work for 6 months, i want to take a laptop out with me, what can people recomend for around £400, which still has reasonably good spec and would cope with running things like adobe premier CS3, want to stick with 15inch screen size due to it beaing a nice size for carrying about etc, i have looked at this:

Laptop 1

and this (sam as previous with slight upgrades)

Laptop 2

or another option is to go for something like this:

Laptop 3

Only thing with option 3 is that it has vista, no i do not like vista, what would be the implications with dell if i were to remove vista and install xp?

Also, idealy i want to have a firewire port or 2 in the laptop, now i know that not many come with this as standard, but i have seen cardbus type II adapters that just slot in, which would give me the firewire ports i require, now do these fit all laptops or do only a few come with the neccesary cardbus 2 ports?

Any other advice would be helpfull, including good, cheap spacious laptop backpacks

Thanks

Adam

[kyle-livesey]

congratulations for getting a job in new zealand. you taking you bike out with you?

[Danny]

The dell will probably come with a free windows 7 upgrade voucher which is out in October.

But i don't rate the CPU in the dell id rather have a proper Core2Duo